A Thousand Plateaus and philosophy /edited by Henry Somers-Hall, Jeffrey A. Bell and James Williams.
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2018.
- 1 online resource (ix, 293 pages) : illustrations.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction / 'A book? what book?' or Deleuze and Guattari on the Rhizome / One or several wolves : the wolf-man's pass-words / Who the earth thinks it is / Postulates of linguistics / 587 BC - AD 70 : on several regimes of signs / November 28, 1947 : how do you make yourself a body without organs? / Year zero : faciality / 'What happened next?' : Hjelmslev's Net, Arachne's Web and the figure of the line / Micropolitics and Segmentarity / Memories of a Deleuzian : to think is always to follow the witches flight / Of the refrain (the Ritornello) / 1227 A.D. : treatise on nomadology - the war machine / 7000 B.C. : apparatus of capture / The smooth and the striated / Concrete rules and abstract machines : form and function in a thousand Plateaus / Henry Somers-Hall, Jeffrey A. Bell and James Williams -- Miguel de Beistegui -- Brent Adkins -- Ronald Bogue -- Jeffrey A. Bell -- Audrey Wasser -- John Protevi -- Nathan Widder -- Helen Palmer -- Eugene W. Holland -- Simon O'Sullivan -- Emma Ingala -- Paul Patton -- Daniel W. Smith -- Henry Somers-Hall -- Ray Brassier.
"This volume brings together a team of international specialists on Deleuze and Guattari to provide in-depth critical studies of each plateau of their major work, A Thousand Plateaus. It combines an overview of the text with deep scholarship and brings a renewed focus on the philosophical significance of their project.'A Thousand Plateaus' represents a whole new way of doing philosophy. This collection supports the critical reception of Deleuze and Guattari's text as one of the most important and influential works of modern theory. Key Features : emphasises the philosophical nature of A Thousand Plateaus, provides detailed coverage of the text as a whole, brings together cutting edge research from some of the leading lights in scholarship on Deleuze and Guattari, an ideal companion to a plateau-by-plateau reading of Deleuze and Guattari's work."--Back cover.